dorkilysoulless:

I just realized I never posted these photos from my visit to Lebanon, Kansas with @treefrogie84.

You know when we write fic about Sam or Dean popping out to town for food or getting an apartment or something?

Yeah, they’re doing that in Smith Center or Mankato or Red Cloud, SD.  Lebanon is in severe decline.  Their school?  Someone appears to be living in and/or raising chickens in it.  City Hall is in a small building across from a closed-up building which appears to have been the previous city hall.  

There are fewer people there now than there were when the town was founded; it peaked in the 50′s, maybe.  The Interstate and rural flight are killing it.  Blink on 281 and you could very well miss it.  

The locals are going to notice the two new boys and their old car, and the older folks probably have weird stories about the abandoned water station – used to be folks out there back before things went to shit – but if you’re looking for somewhere obscure?  This place is pretty solid.

(Oh, and the abandoned motel out by the geographic center of the US?  Owned by some hunters who live in Texas.)